Rui Wang

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How political influencers amplified Trump’s media-bashing rhetoric on Twitter: from synergistic echoing to strategic avoidance, countering, and retooling Extending existing research on right-wing populism and how the news media handles right-wing populists and their media-bashing rhetoric, this study examines how such rhetoric is amplified by politi...

🚨New Pub🚨 Media-bashing became an identity. When Trump attacked the news media on social media, how did political influencers on the left and right amplify his rhetoric? Check out our new article (w/ @yinizhang.bsky.social): www.tandfonline.com/eprint/Z8NQW...

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🚨 New paper out in @journalqd.bsky.social! 🚨
How do different social media platforms connect to each other? In our latest study, we propose that social media can be understood as a system made up of differentiated yet interconnected platforms, shaped by how users share information. #socialmedia🧵

Graphic showing how trusted different professions are by the American people.

What institutions and professions are most trusted by the American people? At the top: medical scientists (73%), the military (72%), scientists in general (71%). Near the bottom: The US Supreme Court (41%), the President (40%), Congress (32%). www.annenbergpublicpolicycenter.org/most-america...

Thanks for sharing our study!

Our method paper is published today! It is perfectly timely before I finish my PhD and before my new journey! This paper is to measure the content engagement capacity in online conversation using a network-based approach. We welcome any feedback, comments, application, and future collaboration!

Reviewed 2 journal articles to end my 2024😊

Generative language models exhibit social identity biases - Nature Computational Science Researchers show that large language models exhibit social identity biases similar to humans, having favoritism toward ingroups and hostility toward outgroups. These biases persist across models, trai...

🚨New in Nature Computational Science! 🚨

Do large language models (LLMs) exhibit social identity biases like humans?

(co-lead by @tiancheng.bsky.social, together with @steverathje.bsky.social, Nigel Collier, @profsanderlinden.bsky.social, and Jon Roozenbeek)
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📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.

@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...

I won't use AI to completely rephrase my writing, it is weird and reads very cold and "mechanical." I usually use it for grammar check, it has been working well. In this regard, I use AI (e.g. ChatGPT, Gemini etc), mostly functioning like Grammarly.

If you completed the review, there will be a green marker in the first column next to the submission id. I don’t think ICA will send a “thank you” email to reviewers.

I’ve been engaging with this platform passively—most browsing, liking, and sharing posts from scholars in my field. Yet, my account is attracting "unknown" followers, many of which seem to be bots. Is this a sign of the platform’s growth or something more concerning, like botnets being deployed?

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This is a very accurate reflection of my research area 🤔

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I've tried to make a starter pack within "AI in Media/journalism". Who am I missing?
Let's have important conversations! #AI #media #journalism

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The findings of this article echo what we found in our recent study (shorturl.at/KdF3U): simply disclosing AI authorship to readers does not change their perceptions of the news article or journalism. We need to go further in terms of transparency when implementing AI in news production.

When I find myself in times of trouble, I sit down and write.

My new book, Misinformation and Society, is now available for PRE-ORDER from Amazon and all other retailers!!
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This is such an amazing list of political communication researchers. I am glad to be on it! Give them a follow ✅

Ghost bots🤖👻

After a week with the TikTok Research API, here are my thoughts: 1) It is super unstable (constant 500 errors and the only fix is to keep trying until it works); 2) The docs are a mess, especially for folks with different levels of coding/API experience, and there’s almost no community support.

I think so. I am more active than before in terms of posting and engaging with others there.

Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization A new Pew Research Center report also found nearly 40% of U.S. adults under 30 regularly get news from news influencers.

Two-thirds of news influencers are men — and most have never worked for a news organization

Free report featuring 88 articles from leading scholars with snap analysis and research insights on the 2024 U.S. presidential election campaign.
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A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election | QUT ePrints Graham, Timothy & Andrejevic, Mark (2024) A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election. [Working Paper] (Unpublished)

🚨NEW study from @qutdmrc.bsky.social with eye-opening! 👀 findings!
The computational analysis of engagement found that X's algorithm was changed in July 2024 to boost Republican-leaning & Elon Musk's accounts during US election
#AlgorithmicBias #USElection2024 #Twitter #X eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/

The metaphors of artificial intelligence A few months after ChatGPT was released, the neural network pioneer Terrence Sejnowski wrote about coming to grips with the shock of what large language models (LLMs) could do: “Something is beginning...

An excellent piece from @melaniemitchell.bsky.social on our struggle to find appropriate metaphors to think about what Large Language Models *are*.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...